That height, combined with a width of roughly six metres, makes it a more substantial structure than most people expect when they picture an agricultural kiln. These were the small industrial workhorses of rural Ireland, used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which farmers then spread on acidic land to improve its fertility. Most have crumbled or been swallowed by hedgerows. This one still holds its shape.

The construction follows a form common to lime kilns across the island. An earthen core, which acts as insulation and structural fill, is encased within stone walls, with the southern-facing front elevation presenting the most finished face. At its base sits an arched recess, sometimes called the eye or draw hole, measuring 1.7 metres high and just over two metres wide, with a depth of 1.35 metres. This is where the burnt lime would have been raked out once firing was complete. Above, accessed from the top, a stone-lined funnel, roughly two metres in diameter, held the alternating layers of limestone and fuel, usually coal or turf, that were loaded in and set alight. The funnel is partially infilled now, and a vertical wall runs across the rear elevation, but the essential form of the kiln remains legible to anyone who knows what to look for.